NCT01944748

Family Mediation Program For At-Risk Youth

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 111 (actual)
• Sponsor: RAND · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this project is to conduct a pilot evaluation of a parent-child mediation program for at-risk youth. It is investigating whether families who receive parent-child mediation show greater improvement in family functioning, as well as adolescent substance use, academic performance, and delinquency, over a 6-week and 12-week period compared to a wait-list control sample.

Conditions

• Family Functioning

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Families Able To Resolve Situations (FARS)	Family mediation is a method of resolving conflicts between parents and teens. During the mediation session, the parent and teen each meet one-on-one with a trained volunteer mediator, who is a neutral person who listens to each party's concerns without taking sides. Then the parent and teen come together and meet with this mediator to work on resolving conflicts they are having. Families participate in up to 3 mediation sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-07-01
• Primary completion: 2015-02-01
• Completion: 2016-04-01
• First posted: 2013-09-18
• Last updated: 2016-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States